Credit: NASA According to the European Space Agency (ESA), more than 170 million pieces of space junk are currently ...
All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the problem with space junk. New research, published in Nature Sustainability on ...
Some of the larger debris in orbit But since the 1960’s or so, the area of space ... “garbage truck” missions. In the coming years, we may see similar spacecraft that rove around Low Earth ...
The last two SpaceX test flights both exploded over the Caribbean, causing debris to land on a number of islands.
Demonstrate how we could remove space debris that's cluttering ... a million chunks of space trash flying around our planet, and most of it is concentrated in low earth orbit, where it whips ...
Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Since the Soviets launched the first satellite in 1957, humans have put ...
Debris from a Space X Falcon 9 rocket lit up skies across Europe before crashing into Poland. The flaming ball was possibly the remains of a rocket booster, an astronomer says. The Kenyan ...
Astroscale Japan is closer than any other company to creating a working space junk ... through Earth orbit since 2009. The maneuvers required to put ADRAS-J near enough to space trash to ...
INCREDIBLE footage shows wreckage from space hurtling towards the Earth before part of it crashes into a garden in Poland. The burning debris came from Elon Musk's Falcon 9 space rocket that ...
The issue of space trash has risen in tandem with increased ... Past examples of manmade human space debris hitting Earth include part of a SpaceX Dragon capsule landing on an Australian ...